There are now nineteen books by Victor Canning in print from the print-on-demand service of Lulu.com, mostly early works which have been out of print for a long time, as well as short story collections. E-book versions are in ePub format. I will gradually add Amazon Kindle editions, downloadable from Amazon.
A new collection of Victor Canning short stories which I have edited, including the superb 'Minerva Club' group, has now been released by the US publishers Crippen and Landru. Follow this link to the publishers' site. Other new editions of The Rainbird Pattern, The Whip Hand, The Python Project and of Everyman's England have appeared recently.
A few of Canning's middle-period books are in print in large-print editions, intended mainly for libraries.
The following is a tally of the number of copies of Victor Canning's books offered for sale by dealers on the ABE network on 15th May 2007 and 20 September 2012. This will give an idea of the relative scarcity of different titles. The total returned by a search for "Victor Canning" was 4666 and 3997 on those days, but that includes translations and a small number of other books written by joint authors whose names include "Victor" and "Canning". My informal checks suggest that dealers are adding around ten books of Canning a day to their listings, which implies that about ten a day on average are being sold since the total stays around the same. Totals for the three Mr. Finchley books include some copies of my modern reprints, which are in print. Listed for the first time are my two new collections of short stories, The Minerva Club and Comedies and Whimsies. For the most part these can be obtained far cheaper by buying directly from the publisher (see above).
(Where a book was sold under a different title in the USA, both figures are given. Otherwise British and American editions are amalgamated. I have generally excluded translations.)
Mr Finchley discovers his England (17/32) US-Mr Finchley's holiday (1/1)
18/33
The dragon tree (89/84) US-Captives of Mora Island (11/8)
100/92
The Satan sampler
101/73
Polycarp’s progress
9/9
The burning eye
48/33
Fall from grace
85/75
Fly away Paul
1/5
A delivery of Furies
151/136
Boy on platform one (4/6) US-Memory boy (45/28)
49/34
Matthew Silverman
3/1
Black flamingo
84/90
Vanishing point
80/55
Mr Finchley goes to Paris
1/13
The limbo line
162/135
Raven’s wind
48/70
Fountain Inn
1/4
The Scorpio letters
121/113
Birds of a feather
67/54
Mr Finchley takes the road
0/4
The whip hand
193/191
Table number seven
15/17
Green battlefield
4/6
Doubled in diamonds
83/53
Young man on a bicycle
6/9
The chasm
102/89
The python project
164/117
Delay on Turtle
3/6
Panther’s moon
169/126
The melting man
146/130
The runaways
80/82
The golden salamander
108/111
Queen’s pawn
116/104
Flight of the grey goose
61/47
A forest of eyes
48/51
The great affair
77/69
The painted tent
27/32
Venetian bird (43/35) Bird of Prey (90/79)
133/114
Firecrest
94/58
Smiler trilogy
3/17
House of the seven flies
164/142
The Rainbird pattern
119/98
The crimson chalice (including trilogy)
94/70
Man from the Turkish Slave
51/50
Finger of Saturn
194/152
Circle of the gods
28/25
Castle Minerva (88/66) US-A handful of silver (63/50)
151/116
The mask of memory
180/129
The immortal wound
14/16
His Bones are coral (8/6) US-Twist of the knife (16/12) & The shark run (6/3)
30/21
The Kingsford mark
119/76
Everyman’s England
4/45
The hidden face (61/66) US-Burden of proof (45/34)
106/100
The doomsday carrier
133/94
The Minerva Club
-/12
The Manasco Road (74/66) US-The forbidden road (8/7)
82/73
Birdcage
80/64
Comedies and Whimsies
-/9
The only copies offered of the 'Alan Gould' or 'Julian Forest' books were of the modern reprints (see above). No first editions of these seven books have been offered for several years.
Information compiled by John Higgins, 19 October, 2012.
Mr. Finchley discovers his England—£11.45 or £3.49 as an e-book
Polycarp's Progress—£12.95
or £3.45 as an e-book
Fountain Inn—£11.95 or £3.45 as an ebook